QUESTIONS OFTEN ASKED

SPEAKING SKILLS

• Typical BORE (Biography –family-, Occupation, Recreation –includes travelling,

Education)

SPEAKING QUESTIONS (L2)

• Different types of descriptions (very frequently, members of their families)

• Current post and deployments abroad (anecdotes, if any)
• How to disassemble and clean a weapon (be careful with this one: you need
specific vocabulary)

SPEAKING QUESTIONS (L3)

• Syrian crisis
• Migrants in Europe
• Caribbean hurricanes
• Comparing nowadays politicians
• Controlling the use of internet
• Measures taken by the EU to control the flow of migrants in Europe
• What is a leader? Define leadership and give your opinion about what features
a good leader should have.
• Hurricane Irma: What happened (L2)? Analyse it (L3). What would have
happened if a hurricane or a similar natural phenomenon had occurred in Spain
(L3)?
• Same type of questions but with Katrina
• What happened on 11-S? (L2) In your opinion, how has it influenced on
Western way of life? (L3)
• North Korea. What are in your opinion some of the solutions to prevent nuclear
weapons development?
• Spain’s international deployments abroad
• Defence of different NATO borders in the Mediterranean and the influence of
the refugees’ crisis on this issue
• Influence of social networks on national and international security.
• The importance of Internet on jihadist indoctrination and the recruitment of lone
wolves (it was also used as a writing topic in an exam taken at the beginning of
October)

• ROLE PLAY: A friend of yours invites you to his wedding but you have an
important meeting in your Company that has just turned up. The meeting is very
important bc some guests from Japanese enterprises are going to attend it. You
have to talk to your boss in order to ask for permission to go to the wedding
(you are supposed to have worked very hard in the previous days)